GROW (Your Own Boyfriend)

What if you could check a few boxes and order the perfect man?

A delightfully absurd, slow-burn dystopian romance. Equal parts dark sci-fi romcom and chaotic, high-stakes fake-dating deal.

One drunk night. One impulsive click. One synthetic man on her doorstep.

In 2390, K8 lonely-shops everything - clothes, gadgets, the occasional questionable life decision. But when a blackout purchase delivers a cloned lover kit to her door, even she has to admit this purchase might be a problem.

No returns. No refunds.

Instead of the docile, pre-programmed lover she expected, she gets James Alexander Fletcher: a sharp-tongued entrepreneur from 2035 with memories, opinions, and absolutely zero interest in being anyone's customizable sweetheart. When his lease on life starts ticking down, they strike a deal - she'll help him survive the future if he pretends to be the perfect boyfriend.

There's just one catch: his résumé hasn't aged well. The only marketable skills James has left involve blood, fists, and a few broken underground rules.

As he fights for the cash to buy his freedom and K8 fights the urge to get emotionally attached, their fake relationship starts to feel dangerously real. The lines between programming and passion blur, and when trust finally breaks down, K8 has to decide whether love is worth the risk-especially when it's the messy, maddening kind that can't be manufactured.

The Love, Manufactured series: interconnected standalones that start like Bridget Jones's Diary, get weird like The Fifth Element, and end like Fight Club - with better romance than all three.

GROW Trope List:

���� Bubblegum Dystopia

���� Dark Romcom

���� Grumpy X Sunshine

���� Fake Dating

���� Forced Proximity

���� Found Family

���� Morally Gray MMC

���� Messy STEM FMC

���� LGBTQ+ Rep

����Reverse Age Gap

���� He Falls First

���� Tension / Yearning

���� He saves her from himself